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Seeing two of your beloved friends marry is its own particular joy, and although I might be (therefore) biased in saying so, Jillian & Dax’s super-secret informal mountain wedding celebration was just about perfect: romantic, personal, and really laid-back. Everything was handmade. Everything. And everyone who came pitched in to make the wedding happen. One friend made the cake, another painted the wooden cake-toppers. One friend did Jillian’s makeup (actually, the same friend who painted the cake toppers); another did Jillian’s hair. Of course, I took the photographs. My husband Matt was making fruit salad until just before he started taking pictures himself. Their friend, Kelly, who married them also barbequed the meat for dinner. Lots of folks pitched in to make dinner … and the tissue paper pom poms you can just barely see in the few reception photos. I was “off-duty” at the reception; we just set up a photo booth and let people snap pictures of themselves which are too, too hilarious to share on this blog.

Jillian made her own wedding gown, including the pattern for it. She deconstructed a vintage dress to make the pattern for the bodice, sewed it, and then began to work on the doilies. It took three weeks and over two miles of crochet yarn to complete the effect. I am still marveling at all the detail. Nobody I know can envision a wildly ambitious project and then pull it off like Jillian can.

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If you look closely at those little cake-toppers, you’ll see that they’re “dressed” just as Jillian, Dax, and their daughter Phi were, right down to the tiniest details (even Dax’s ascot—Jillian made the real life version from the lining of her dress!). After the cake-cutting, Jillian changed into a custom-made safari suit to match Dax’s. How cute is that?